TED2011: Dan Ariely Talks About the Biases We Don’t Recognize

The Health Blog has written a lot about conflicts of interest. At the TED2011 conference, Dan Ariely, a behavioral economics professor at MIT, talked about how hard it is to detect our own subtle biases.

Ariely, a burn victim, recounted how one of his doctors called him into the office and announced he was going to improve Ariely’s life. The doc was going to make Ariely’s face more symmetrical by tattooing little black marks on the side of this face that no longer had hair growth so it would look like the stubble on the other side …

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